Royal Canadian Mint releases latest Lucky Loonie

Few tales of superstition capture Canadian hearts like that of the “Lucky Loonie.”

The story goes that when the organizers of Salt Lake City 2002 were building the Olympic ice hockey arena, they naturally turned to ice makers from Canada. One of them, Trent Evans, buried a Canadian dollar coin – the loonie – at centre ice. Both Canada’s men’s and women’s hockey teams went on to win gold skating over the loonie, and a legend was born.